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Commencement Program [Fall 2019], St. Cloud State University

Commencement Programs

St. Cloud State University commencement program for fall 2019

December 2019 School Of Education Doctoral Hooding Ceremony Alumni Speaker Remarks, Shawn P. Calhoun

School of Education Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Student Insights Report, Fall 2019, The Center For Student Analytics

Publications

For the past three years, the staff of the Center for Student Analytics have worked to discover and expose meaningful, data-informed insights into what helps students succeed at Utah State University. The following pages highlight 20 of the most useful insights we found provided here in small sets that will be useful to students, faculty, staff, university leadership, parents, and even prospective students. As you explore this report, we encourage you to see the student data as a window into USU itself. While big data helps us understand how individual students are performing, it tells us a great deal more …

Commencement Ceremony Of 2019: Dr. Pallavi Patel College Of Health Care Sciences, Ron And Kathy Assaf College Of Nursing, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

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Student Involvement And The Impact On Academic Success, Christopher Hyer

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Universities have been trying to increase graduation rates for decades. Using Astin’s student involvement theory (1984), which posits the more a student is involved at the university, the more likely the students will be retained and graduate from the university. Much of the research over the past 20 years has been limited to study the impact of one form of involvement has on retention and graduation, while this study combines different forms of involvement and how they impact retention and graduation rates. This study occurs with a first-year cohort entering fall 2012 at a public four-year university in the Pacific …

Leaving Stem: An Examination Of The Stem To Non-Stem Major Change And How The Stem Curriculum Relates To Academic Achievement In Non-Stem Fields, Zachary M. Romash

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The lack of student persistence in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields has been widely researched in recent years. Due to the high attrition rates in STEM fields and the shortage of STEM workers in the United States, research on STEM attrition has focused on identifying factors that cause STEM attrition and ways to increase STEM persistence. While these studies are helpful to understand STEM attrition, researchers have ignored what happens to the students who fail to persist in the STEM fields. Instead of focusing on the causes of STEM attrition, this study focused on the STEM to …

Commencement Ceremony Of 2019: Abraham S. Fischler College Of Education And School Of Criminal Justice, College Of Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences, College Of Psychology, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

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Commencement Ceremony Of 2019: College Of Engineering And Computing, Halmos College Of Natural Sciences And Oceanography, H. Wayne Huizenga College Of Business And Entrepreneurship, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

2019 Commencement Address: Jane Dammen Mcauliffe, Jane Dammen Mcauliffe

Commencement Addresses

Prominent American educator Jane McAuliffe, a world-renowned scholar of Islam and one of the senior leaders at the Library of Congress, will address this year’s graduates during the College of the Holy Cross Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 24, at 10:30 a.m. at the DCU Center in Worcester.

Jane McAuliffe is senior advisor to the librarian of Congress and formerly the inaugural director of national and international outreach. Her work at the Library has involved a broad range of its programs, including the National Book Festival, the Kluge research center for scholars, the Library’s exhibits, publishing office, visitors’ services, and …

Commencement 2019, Taylor University

Commencement

The program of the 2019 Annual Commencement of Taylor University, May 18, 2019.

Commencement Ceremony Of 2019: The College Of Dental Medicine, Dr. Pallavi Patel College Of Health Care Sciences, College Of Medical Sciences, College Of Optometry, Dr. Kiran C. Patel College Of Osteopathic Medicine, College Of Pharmacy, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Commencement Program [Spring 2019], St. Cloud State University

Commencement Programs

St. Cloud State University commencement program for spring 2019

Focus On Graduates, Not Speakers, Ben Sells

Press Releases

I love the pomp and circumstance that marks commencement. It's the most important, picture-perfect day in the life of a university. And as a president, it's a great honor to present a diploma, shake hands and congratulate each graduate.

The tradition of commencement, one that spans hundreds of years, has a modern addition: the high-profile speaker. It's an approach I once supported. But my mind changed after becoming president of Ouachita Baptist University in 2016. I learned Ouachita's practice was not having an outside commencement speaker. It's a practice I've come to deeply affirm.

Here's why

2019 Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony: Abraham S. Fischler College Of Education And School Of Criminal Justice, College Of Arts, Humanities, And Social Sciences, College Of Engineering And Computing, College Of Psychology, Dr. Pallavi Patel College Of Health Care Sciences, Farquhar Honors College, Halmos College Of Natural Sciences And Oceanography, H. Wayne Huizenga College Of Business And Entrepreneurship, Ron And Kathy Assaf College Of Nursing, Shepard Broad College Of Law, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Commencement Location Changed To Vining Arena, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Due to expected rain, Ouachita Baptist University’s 132^nd spring commencement will be held on Saturday, May 11, 2019, in Bill Vining Arena, located in Sturgis Physical Education Center. The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. and will honor 345 graduates.

2019 Shepard Broad College Of Law Commencement Ceremony, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Swosu One Hundred And Fifteenth Annual Spring Convocation, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Graduation Programs

This is the program for the SWOSU One Hundred and Fifteenth Annual Spring Convocation Exercises, held at the Pioneer Cellular Events Center on Saturday, May 4, 2019, at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm. Opening Remarks were presented by President Randy L. Beutler

Cover Photo: 1907 - College Of The Holy Cross Commencement Parade, Brett A. Cotter

Of Life and History

This essay provides context for a photograph of the College of the Holy Cross 1907 Commencement Parade, which features an image of James Cardinal Gibbons. Cardinal Gibbons, a prominent religious figure of the time, was the Commencement speaker that year.

The photograph was published as the cover art for Of History and Life, vol.2 by permission of the College of the Holy Cross Archives and Special Collections.

Seeking Success: A Case Study Of African American Male Retention At A Two-Year College, Richard Latroy Moss

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

There is a problem in higher education in the United States. African American students, specifically males, are not being retained and graduating. This problem is even more evident for students that attend two year colleges. African American male students lag behind white males, Hispanic males and African American females, in retention and graduation rates. This problem has caught the attention of many leaders. Policy makers and college leaders are among those who seek to understand the why and find solutions to the challenge of African American male student retention at two year colleges, as two year colleges are becoming the …

Exploration Of Learning, Social, And Behavioral Experiences Of Female High School Graduates With Emotional Behavior Disorder From Public Schools In The United States: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study, Christie Renee Simpson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this transcendental, phenomenological study is to describe the lived experience of public high school female college preparatory graduates diagnosed with an emotional behavior disorder (EBD) in the United States. The queries are: (a) how do female students with EBD describe their high school experience, and (b-d) what learning factors, behavioral supports, and environmental influences contributed to their ability to meet graduation requirements. The theory guiding this study is Bandura’s (1986) social cognitive theory as it is firmly grounded in behaviorism and explains the impact of complex interactions on behavior, learning, personal development, and social outcomes. Miller’s (1976) …

Spring Commencement, 2019, Marshall University

Marshall University Commencement

Program for the One Hundred Eighty-Second Commencement of Marshall University.

2019 Central Washington University Commencement, Central Washington University

Commencement Programs

A commencement program from graduation ceremonies at Central Washington University.

Winter Commencement, 2019, Marshall University

Marshall University Commencement

Program for the One Hundred Eighty-third Commencement of Marshall University, Saturday, December 14, 2019, 10:00 am. held at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Huntington, West Virginia.

What Works? Supporting Students From Urban School Districts At A Midwestern University, Eric Reed

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Postsecondary administrators across the nation are in search for effective policies and practices that lead to higher rates of student academic performance, persistence, and completion rates. In a time of increased accountability and diminished resources, the empirical findings of this study help administrators by demonstrating that resources invested in retention yield long-term benefits to the institution. At a large, public, 4-year university in the Midwest, the average 6-year graduation rate of students from urban school districts was 24% compared to the overall 40% graduation rate for the institution. Historically, students from urban school districts enter postsecondary institutions after persevering through …

Creating Scholar Athletes: Investigating The Academic Support Provided To High School Student Athletes In Southern California High Schools, Melinda Love

LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations

This study used semi-structured interviews of athletic directors to present a descriptive narrative of academic support provided to student athletes in five Southern California high schools. These interviews highlighted what supports were provided as well as structures that would better support student athletes. The impetus of this study was the mixed findings regarding the academic performance of student athletes in comparison to their non-athlete peers. While high school students must satisfy academic requirements to remain eligible to participate, California high schools are not required to provide academic support to their student athletes (California Interscholastic Federation, 2017). Without an obligation to …

Factors Contributing To Student Retention In Online Learning And Recommended Strategies For Improvement: A Systematic Literature Review, Pauline S. Muljana, Tian Luo

STEMPS Faculty Publications

Aim/Purpose

This systematic literature review investigates the underlying factors that influence the gap between the popularity of online learning and its completion rate. The review scope within this paper includes an observation of possible causal aspects within the non-ideal completion rates in online learning environments and an identification of recommended strategies to increase retention rates.

Background

While online learning is increasingly popular, and the number of online students is steadily growing, student retention rates are significantly lower than those in the traditional environment. Despite the multitude of studies, many institutions are still searching for solutions for this matter.

Methodology

A …